Fire & Rain

[malthaussen]

18. I've been laughing a lot the past week.

It is my firm conviction that the momentum has shifted. Mr Trump's actions are those of panic and weakness. Though he has begged for the violence to escalate, the protesters aren't cooperating, and many police departments are showing great restraint. Of course, many are showing themselves barbarians, and thus marking themselves for reform. The Pentagon has shown unprecedented resistance to Mr Trump's bloviating and threats. The actual reach of his little fingers extends no farther than across the street -- and he is finally building his fence, but to keep us out, not immigrants. And he's doing it in the full light of day. (And that pathetic fence will be no more a barrier than the other one)

Things will get worse, here and there, now and then. But the secular trend looks to me to be upward. The cowards Mr Trump relies on are as afraid as he is, and the courageous are moving in the right direction. Times may be troubled, but I do believe that is the sound of crumbling institutions that were rotten to begin with. They will be replaced, maybe, by ones more fitted to the ideals that supposedly created our nation, and made it strong in the darkest times.

-- Mal